Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast

Brett Toresdahl, MD of the Hospital for Special Surgery is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Toresdahl is board certified in family medicine and has a certificate of added qualification in sports medicine. He is a Team Physician for US Biathlon and Rugby United New York as well as an Orthopedic Consultant for UFC and on the medical staff for Invesco Series QQQ Tennis. He previously…

Karsten Hollander, MD, PhD of the University of Hamburg is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Hollander is an assistant professor specializing in sports medicine and physical medicine and rehabilitation. He served as the team physician for the German cross-country skiing national team and on the medical advisory board of the German Athletic Association (middle and long-distance running). He completed his PhD in biomechanics studying the…

Saša Čigoja of the University of Calgary is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Saša is a Kinesiology PhD student at the Human Performance Laboratory. Under the supervision of Dr. Benno Nigg, he studies the effects of increased longitudinal midsole bending stiffness of sport shoes on running mechanics. His PhD work focuses on how increased midsole bending stiffness can be used to redistribute lower limb joint work…

Evan O. Nelson, PT, DPT, PhD of University of Wisconsin-Madison is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Nelson is an assistant professor in the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program and the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. His research involves evaluating the utility of patient-reported outcome measures for running-related injuries. His practice experience spans multiple sports and orthopedic clinical settings including a current position at…

Nicholas Murray, PhD of East Carolina University is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Murray is a Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and director of the Visual Motor Lab. Dr. Murray’s research involves visual-motor control, brain activity, and the influence of cognitive effort within motor control and learning. His primary goal is to determine antecedents and consequences of an individual’s ability to function in dynamic…

Steven Sashen is a serial entrepreneur who has never had a job, a former professional stand-up comic and award-winning screenwriter, and a competitive sprinter — one of the fastest men over 55 in the country. He and his wife, Lena Phoenix, co-founded the footwear company Xero Shoes, creating “a MOVEMENT movement” which has helped hundreds of thousands of people Live Life Feet First with happy, healthy, strong feet in addictively…

Christine Pollard, PT, PhD of Oregon State University-Cascades in Bend, Oregon is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Pollard is an Associate Professor of Kinesiology and the Director of the Force Lab which is a biomechanics laboratory housed within a large Orthopedic Sports Medicine Center in Bend. Dr. Pollard’s research is dedicated to improving the scientific understanding of lower extremity injuries and advancing injury-prevention and rehabilitation…

Karl Zelik, PhD and Emily Matijevich of Vanderbilt University are our guests for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Zelik is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and co-directs the Center for Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology (CREATE). CREATE aims to improve health, mobility, and independence for individuals with disabilities, and to enhance human capabilities beyond biological limits, by engineering, measuring, optimizing and understanding technologies that physically augment human…

Mitchell J. Rauh, PT, PhD, MPH, FACSM of San Diego State University is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Rauh is a Professor and the Founding Program Director for the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program. He is the Director of the San Diego State University Running and Sports Injury Prevention Research laboratory, and a Co-Principal Investigator of Project SPIRIT (Sports Injury Research In Teens), a multi-funded…

Stephen Messier, PhD of Wake Forest University of the University of Washington is our guest for episode 33 of the Mountain Land Running Medicine Podast. Dr. Messier is Professor and Director of the J.B. Snow Biomechanics Laboratory in the Department of Health and Exercise Science, and teaches biomechanics and human gross anatomy at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Dr. Messier has 28 years of clinical trial experience concerning osteoarthritis (OA)…

Cristine Agresta, MPT, PhD of the University of Washington is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podast. Dr. Agresta is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Physical Therapy in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. She is interested in identifying factors that influence physical resilience, functionality, and durability in athletes. Her research focuses on utilizing wearables to improve clinical assessment and monitoring techniques in real-world settings.

Allison Gruber, PhD of the University of Indiana is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Gruber is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology within the School of Public Health. She received her Master’s degree at East Carolina University and her PhD from University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on the metabolic and mechanical differences between different foot strike patterns as well as the…

Chris Johnson, physical therapist and owner of Zeren PT & Performance in Seattle, WA is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podast. Chris is also the co-founder and CEO of RunCadence, an iOS app that helps runners apply step rate manipulation to their training. Chris is well published in medical literature and a sought after speaker when it comes to managing endurance athletes across the injury to performance…

John Dopp, PharmD of the University of Wisconsin is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Dopp is a pharmacist and Associate Professor in the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy, and clinical researcher with Wisconsin Sleep. His primary research interest is the relationship between sleep disorders and athletic performance. As part of Badger Athletic Performance, Dr. Dopp conducts a weekly sleep clinic with UW student-athletes to…

Jeff Gaudette of RunnersConnect.net is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Coach Jeff has been running for 13 years, at all levels of the sport. He was a two time Division-I All-American in Cross Country while at Brown University and competed professionally for 4 years after college. Jeff has competed all over the world and recorded Olympic Trials qualifying times in the marathon and 10,000 meters. He…